General News

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29713, 5 January 1962, Page 8

General News

Playing Stops Play The sound of rock-’n-roll music blaring across McLean Park, Napier, brought the representative cricket match between Fiji and Hawke's Bay to a halt. A jazz group was rehearsing in the Centennial Hall at the park and as it swung into full action, the noise, relayed by amplifiers inside the hall, echoed across the ground. This, added to the blaring of transistor radios in the stand, was too much for the players. The umpires, Messrs L. Storkey and E. Singleton, stopped play and asked the band to end its rehearsal. First Apples Forty-five cases of Gladstone apples from Loburn were sold at auction m a Christchurch produce market for 38s to 44s a case yesterday. They are selling in the shops for 2s a pound. A small shipment of Australian Valencia oranges which arrived in the Waimea will be sold in the shops today at a fixed price of Is 4d a pound. Glass On Beaches Broken bottles are causing 'heavy casualties among swimmers on Wanganui beaches. About 25 children have been treated at the Wanganui Hospital within the last few days after treading or falliing on glass littering sandhills. The medical superintendent of the Wanganui Hospital (Dr. W. J. Trezise) has appealed to parents and holiday-makers to warn children of the dangers of the glass. Warm North-Westerly A maximum temperature of 83deg was recorded by the Weather Office at Harewood yesterday between 2 p.m. And 2.30 p.m. The temiperature rose from 78deg at ;noon to 83deg when a light 'north-easterly changed to a I moderate north-westerly {shortly before 2 p.m. The I sky was clear in the morning but high cloud became general later in the day. New Vegetables The first of the new season’s parsnips were sold yesterday in Christchurch produce markets for up to 6d a pound. They are selling in the shops for Is 3d a pound. The first swedes were 10s a case in the markets and Is a pound in the shops. The first pickling onions are selling tor Is a pound. lonosonde Check Mr G. A. M. King, of the Geophysical Observatory, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, will leave for Antarctica about January 8 aboard the United States attack cargo ship Arneb. He will make a routine check of the observatory’s ionosondes at Scott Base and life at Hallett Station, and consult with the men who are operating them.